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rifled cannon at a short distance, for our guns would be fired three or four times to their once.
But it must be admitted that some of their batteries were fired with the precision, almost, of a rifle at one hundred yards' distance.
There was a constant struggle during the day over the enemy's batteries.
Time and again were they captured by our men, and very often retaken by the enemy.
The most excited creature on the battle field was the Rev. Mr. Repetto, Captain of the Page Co. (Va.) Grays, who claimed the honor of taking Rickett's (Sherman's) battery.
Of his whole company, nearly one hundred strong, he had only eighteen uninjured.
Another of our reverends, Colonel Pendleton, a graduate of West Point, a resident of Lexington, Virginia, and an Episcopalian minister, was quite busy during the day, and doubtless did more than any one else to check the advancing enemy.
The inquiry among the prisoners was very general, Who commanded that battery on the left that killed so many o